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Is acting for a foreigner is a circumstance of great weight.

If the goods are to be bought in England he would not be

chargeable unless he had made himself directly liable. On

the other hand, when he is acting for a foreign principal,

that ought to be remembered."

When one solicitor employs another to act for his

principal, even though the principal is named, by a ciastom

of solicitors, credit is exclusively given by the one solicitor

to the other ; it being unusual for the principal to give his

Kolicitor any authority to pledge his credit to another

solicitor.

RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF PRINCIPAL AND AGENT. 105

Scrace v. Whittington (1823), 2 B. & Cress. 11 ; here

It was laid down that the attorney who does the business

always gives credit to the attorney who employs him, and

not to the client for whose benefit it is done.

Waller V. Holmes (1860), Jur. N.S. 13G7, & 30 L. J.

Ch. 14 ; here it was held that the client of a country

solicitor employs only the solicitor in the country ; the

London agent giving credit exclusively to the solicitor in

the country.

A custom of a particular trade may also render an

agent personally liable upon a contract, if he does not

mention the name of his principal, even though he is known

to be contracting as an agent.

FranJclyn v. Lamond (1847), 4 C. B. 637 ; here it was

laid down that, by custom, an auctioneer is liable if he

does not name his principal, even though he contracts " as

auctioneer." And Wilde, C.J., said; "I apprehend it to

be very old law that an auctioneer who sells without at

the time of the sale disclosing the name of his principal

contracts personally."

Humfreij v. Dale (1858), 7 E. & B. 266 ; here it was

held that evidence was admissible of a custom of a par-

ticular trade, by which if a broker purchased without

disclosing the name of his principal, he was himself per-

sonally liable, even though he was known to be acting

as an agent.

Fleet V. Miirtoii (1871), L. R. 7 Q. B. 126 ; here it was

held that evidence was admissible of a custom of the

London fruit trade by which if a broker, though known

to be contracting as an agent, does not give his principal's

name, he is personally liable, concurrently with his principal.

Hutchinson v. Tatham (1873), L. R. 8 C. P. 482 ; in this

case the defendants acting as agents for A entered into a

charter-party, which they signed " as agents to merchants,"

without disclosing the name of their principal : it was held

106 The law of agency.

In an action brought by the shipowners against the

defendants on the charter-party, that evidence was admis-

sible of a trade custom by which, if the name of the

principal was not disclosed within a reasonable time, the

agent was personally liable.

Pike V. Ongley (1887), 18 Q. B. D. 708; here it was

held that evidence was admissible of a custom of the hop

market, by which a broker, even though contracting as

such, is personally liable, concurrently with his principal,

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